Musicians Are Worried: Brazil May Ban Pernambuco Sales And They Say “There Is No Equivalent”
Every violinist, cellist, and violist knows the weight of a good bow. Not the grams the feel. The balance, the resonance, the way a stick vibrates like it’s alive. For more than 250 years, that feel has depended on a single tree: pernambuco, an endangered Brazilian hardwood so dense and elastic that no modern material … Read more